How TSC Spent Budget in paying Dead and Long Retired teachers

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The Teachers Service Commission TSC has been exposed following details emerging that it has so fa paid a whopping Kh466.9 million to dead or retired teachers.

According to the documents tabled before members of Parliament,TSC paid  millions of money to teachers who had either died, some exited commission,others resigned or to those who absconded duty.

The TSC chief Executive officer Nancy Macharia was caught at the receiving end when she was asked to explain how the commission paid out such huge sums of money without having noticed that it paid teachers who were no longer in service.

Macharia had appeared before before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to respond to audit queries .

The parliamentarians further demanded that TSC be subjected to a system audit on the payroll to determine whether there were any other losses the commission had made.

In an Audi report for the financial year ending June 2022, Auditor General Nancy Gathungu  raised several questions relating to TSC salary overpayment of Sh466.9 million.

The report has also indicated that the commission had other several queries relating to cash losses which must be addressed.
Among the queries  raised that TSC must explain include;
  • overspending
  • unsupported receivable balances
  • unexplained decrease in employer contribution to National Social Security Fund and staff pension funds among others.

Responding to queries on overpayment,Dr. Macharia indicated that the amounts had grown over the years as a result  of poor reporting systems that were inefficient because of their manual nature.

Photo collage TSC Offices and Teachers payroll

Photo collage TSC Offices and Teachers payroll ;image/File

To correct the errors on salary overpayment, Macharia reported that the commission had developed and was implementing an overpayment policy.

She further indicated that there is development on an online system to improve efficiency in reporting mechanisms between the commission headquarters,TSC  field officers and the schools in respect to death, teacher desertion of duty, retired teachers ,those on resignation, report sick leave as well as  absenteeism.

She further said that so far the commission  had alerted heads of institutions, TSC sub county directors and also the  county directors on such  overpayment cases .

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